"Twice in the last year herds of Government beef have arrived short. The drovers always claimed that someone must have stolen cows during the night." ...aybe this time the night guard caught them," said Stone."Well, I don't have to tell you that with things heating up with the Indians my troops need the food the Government buys for them. I've got my hands full with hostiles. I don't have time to fool around with investigations." I'm on my way back to Abilene," said Stone, "to see what I can find. Do I make myself clear young man?" James said as he stared down his oldest until he lowered his eyes and nodded his head."I didn't hear you Randle." Ok dad, I will go call Tom and tell him I can't go," he said as he stood up."I will talk to him later, but for now, you interrupted Victor. What do you say," he replied."Sorry..." he started to say and then saw his father's look and changed what he was going to say, "Victor, Amber I am sorry I interrupted you." That's ok Randle. I understand you. . at the in-laws’ Aspen house... “Do you, Steve, take this woman, Amrita, to be your lawfully wedded wife, to have and to hold from this day forward, to love, cherish, and protect, for better or worse, in sickness and in health, for rich or for poor, for as long as you both shall live?”Horace, serving as both officiator and father of the groom (he was an ordained minister in our new church), noticeably left out the whole “forsaking all others” nonsense.“I do,” Steve blushed a little as he. This is no normal prison though." Penny looked bewildered, "What?" "This," BF made a grand gesture encompassing all, "isthe Specialized Female Modification Facility. Also known to us residents ashell." "M-m-modification?" "Of course," she laughed, "You woke up in a hospitalright?" Penny nodded. "Sore all over? Especially tits, butt, and maybelips?" Again a nod. "I think it's safe to say that whoever you usedto be you weren't…" she pointed to Penny's bust, "quite so shapely." "I still don't.